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Originally Posted by DarkWizard12  the number of abortions were the same, whether or not they were legal? So why did the crime number change at all? Unless abortion has nothing to do with abortion? |
You'd expect legalisation to increase abortion rates, particularly with the use of public sector subsidies to minimise price.
Are you perhaps confusing yourself with short run and long run effects? For example, with the elimination of legal abortions I'd expect the crime effects to gradually decline (as the illegal abortion market adapts and maximises the available abortion numbers)